Congress Probes Veterans’ Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths

Published November 23, 2013

Congress probes veterans’ prescription drug overdose deaths — After CBS News broke the story last month revealing returning veterans are receiving lethal amounts of pain medication from Veterans Affairs hospitals, case …

Veterans court: An overdue service for those who served
Willing offenders can enroll in diversion programs that involve everything from mental-health and substance-abuse treatment to community service and mentoring. Seminole County Judge John L. Woodard, who presides over a similar program in Seminole …
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Medicare's Failure to Track Doctors Wastes Billions on Name-Brand Drugs
All of Quon's patients in 2011 qualified for the low-income subsidy, sometimes called "Extra Help. … Health programs run by the U.S. military and the Department of Veterans Affairs control costs by strictly limiting the name-brand drugs doctors can …
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